Authorised or registered institutions, persons and products
These companies, persons and products have a licence and are permitted to operate on the financial market.
Warning list
These companies are not authorised and may be engaging in financial market activity without the requisite licence.
Enforcement report
The enforcement report contains anonymised case studies that offer a more in-depth insight into FINMA’s enforcement activities.
Warning list
This is a list of companies and individuals that may be operating without the requisite FINMA authorisation.
Recovery and resolution
The section on recovery and resolution provides an insight into the measures available to FINMA in the event that institutions become destabilised. FINMA thereby contributes to ensuring financial stability.
Financial Market Supervision Act
The legal basis for FINMA as an authority, setting out its tasks and powers.
Annual report and financial statements
FINMA gives a full account of its activities in its annual report.
FINMA: A Portrait

Supervision of the financial sector calls for a strong, competent, independent regulator. This brochure illustrates how FINMA meets these criteria.

Annual Report
FINMA accounts for its supervisory activities in its annual report and annual financial statements.

Proportional supervision for smaller banks

In his speech at the Small Bank Symposium in Bern, FINMA CEO Stefan Walter emphasised that the problems of the bigger institutions should not lead to over-regulation of the small institutions.

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SupTech: a strategic priority for financial market supervision

Chair of FINMA’s Board of Directors Marlene Amstad at the IOSCO Annual Meeting on the targeted use of SupTech to strengthen supervision.

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Information sheets: Changes in banking regulation following the CS emergency takeover

Based on the Federal Council parameters, which were published on 6 June, FINMA sets out its view of how the Federal Government’s parameters should be implemented in a targeted.

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Warning about misuse of the FINMA name

You should be suspicious about calls or emails claiming to be from FINMA because as a rule FINMA does not contact individuals.

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Addressing nature risks

At the SSF Annual Conference 2025, FINMA CEO Stefan Walter explained how FINMA deals with natural risks.

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Challenges and supervisory priorities in asset management

FINMA CEO Stefan Walter presented the supervisory perspective on asset management at the Asset Management Day 2025.

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FINMA Annual Report 2024

FINMA's Annual Report highlights its supervisory activities in 2024. In addition, FINMA is providing data on enforcement cases in a database as well as statistics on its website.

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  • Portfolio managers and trustees
  • Supervisory organisations
  • Representative offices of financial institutions based outside Switzerland under FinIA
  • Self-regulatory organisations (SROs)
  • Financial market infrastructures and foreign market participants
  • Rating agencies
  • Registration body
  • Ombudsmen for financial service providers
  • Reviewing body for prospectuses
  • FinTech
  • Portfolio managers and trustees
  • Supervisory organisations
  • Self-regulatory organisations (SROs)
  • Financial market infrastructures
  • Central mortgage bond institutions
  • FinTech
  • Market supervision
  • Enforcement tools
  • Database for assessing fitness and propriety requirements
  • National and international cooperation
  • Rights and obligations
  • Case reports and court decisions
  • Recovery and resolution
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